Re: redhat 9 - one machine no longer gets network access beyond router

From: Jim Fischer (jfischer_link5809_at_now.here.com)
Date: 12/09/03


Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 14:47:30 -0600

Umilla Quant wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Now, however, the laptop will not access the internet or anything
> beyond the router. The laptop can ping the router, and it can ping the
> desktop, [snip]
>
> So I presume what happened was that setting up kppp changed some
> configuration files that had been working so now they don't. I haven't
> been able to figure out what, though.
>
> Both machines have similar /sbin/route outputs:
>
> desktop$ /sbin/route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 139.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> default router 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
> desktop$
>
>
> laptop$ /sbin/route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 139.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> default router 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
> laptop$
>
> ...and idential resolv.conf files:
>
> $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
> search localhost.localdomain
> nameserver 192.168.0.1
> $
>
> Does anybody know what went wrong and how to fix it?

What is the output from the ifconfig(8) program on your laptop?

    [laptop]$ /sbin/ifconfig -a

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